When God Withdraws from His People
By God’s withdrawing from His people, He prevents His people’s withdrawing from Him; and so by an affliction He prevents sin. For God to withdraw from me is but my affliction, but for me to withdraw from God, that is my sin.
And therefore it were better for me that God should withdraw a thousand times from me than that I should once withdraw from God (Heb. 10:38-39). God therefore forsakes us that we may not forsake our God.
God sometimes hides Himself that we may cleave the closer to Him and hang the faster upon Him.
— Thomas Brooks
Mute Christian, 198
